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What Is CASTORIA
Cantorla Is a hnrmlcRS substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
gorlc, Drops and Suolhliifr Syrups. It Ig l'irauuiut. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotio
substiiiioci. Its ntjo Is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays FeverislmeiM. It euros DLirrluim and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, euros Constipation
aud Flatulency. It asiiiniiliitos the Food, regulates the
Mtoinuoh and llowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Tauucea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the
The KM You toe Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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WKLDOX, N. C
Organized Under the Laws ol the State of North Carolina,
Slate of North Carolina Depository.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Depository.
Capilal aDfl Snrplns, $55,000.
For over l!l years this institution has provided hanking utilities for
this section. Its stockholder and officers arc identified with the husi
ncss interests of Halifax anil Northampton counties.
A Havings llepartment is maintained for the henelit of all who desire
to deposit in a Savings Itank, In this Department interest is allowed as
follows:
For Deposits allowed to remain three months or longer, 2 per cent. Kix
months or longer. .1 per cent. Twelve months or longer. 4 percent.
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A . .C. House. .1.1,. Shepherd, V. A.
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MASL'FACTUUKHS OF
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Blinds, Mantels, Door and Window Screens
MADE TO ORDF.lt AND UECil l.AU STOCK MZEM.
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Weldon, N. C.
preciate the fact that every home furnishing need
can be filled, promptly and at a distinctive price
.saving at this store.
We are showing a line of Kitchen Cabinets,
Stoves, and labor-saving devices that you will be
delighted to have demonstrated.
It will pay you
To become posted on our new offerings whether
you care to purchase now or later.
no mstter what you
combination of service, quality, and modest prices
together with terms that make it easy to supply
your needs will make you
, of this store.
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Weldon, N. C
TANNER'S
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WELDON, N. C.
born made uiidor lilt per.
Signature of
application to the l'rcsidcntort'asliier
eASlllKH:
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SOOD NEWS
FROM THE
Every housewife will ap
need for the homeour
a permanent customer
ROOF P4M
JENNY LIND AND GR1SI.
! As She Song She Was No Longer
! In the Presence ol Royalty, Hut
I Singing to Loving Friends In
j Her l-'atherlnnd.
i
We have recently rend it boun
tiful incident, Jenny bind mid
Orini wort rivals for popular
fitvnr in London. Until were
inviti'il to sinn the .Hume 1 1 i k ' t
tit a court concert. Jenny bind
lining tin younger, wing lirst,
wits ho disturbed by tbo lierco
Hcurnful look of (irisi that bIic
wuk at the point of failure,
when suddenly tin inspiration
cutne to her. The accompanist
was striking his final chords.
She asked him to rise, and took
the vacant seat. Her fingers
wandered over the keys in a
loving prelude, and then she
sang a little prayer which she
loved as a child. She hadn't
sung it for years. As she sang
she was no longer in the pres.
ence of royalty, but singing to
loving friends in her father
land. Softly at first the plaintive
notes flouted on the air, swell
ing louder and richer every mo
ment. The singer seemed to
throw her soul into that weird,
thrilling, plaintive "prayer."
Gradually the song died away
and ended in a sob. There was
silence, the silence of admiring
wonder. The audience sat
spellbound. Jenny Linil lifted
her sweet eyes to look in the
scornful face that had so dis
concerted her. There was no
fierce expression now; instead
a teardrop glistened on the
long, black lashes, anil after a
moment with the impulsiveness
of a child of the tropics, (Irisi
crossed to Jenny land's side,
placed her arm about her and
kissed her, utterly regardless
of the audience. ( leorge T. An
gell. PECULIAR CUSTOM.
An old farmer and his wife
lived near the village church.
tine warm Sunday evening
while, they sat dozing on the
porch, the crickets set up a loud
chirping.
''I just love that chirpin'
noise," said the old man drow
sily, and before the crickets
had stopped he was fast asleep.
Soon after the church choir
broke into a beautiful chant.
Just listen to that!" exclaim
ed his wife, "ain't it beauti
ful r"
'Yes," murmured the old
farmer sleepily, "they do it
with their hind legs." Doro
thy A. Freoman.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR I A
Wood's Seeds
Soja Beans
THC COMING FORAGE AND
SOIL-IMPROVING CROP.
Farmer everywhere ere enthusiastic
in their praise. Contains more oil, milk
end fat-producing qualities than any
other forage crop; at the same, are one
of the surest-cropping and largest -yield-ing
crops grown.
Wood's 1914 Descriptive Catalog
gives full descriptions and information
about all the best varieties of
Soja Beans. Cow Peas,
Velvet Beans, Sorghums.
Ensilage Corn. Millets,
and all other Seasonable Seeds.
Write for Wood's Descriptive)
Catalog and prices of any seeds in
which you are interested.
T. W. WOOD 6 SONS.
Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va.
io Ihe Fubiic !
I have for sale and am making
ready for shipment a limited sup
ply of
The Cleveland Big
Boll Cotton Seed.
These seed have just been ginned
and as soon as they can be delint
ed they will be placed on sale F.O.
B. my depot Enfield, N. C. at one-
half their cost price to me $1.25
per bushel, cash with orders. -
This is undoubtedly one of the
greatest cotton now published
among the cotton world.
Yours truly,
C. A. WILLIAMS, Sr.,
Rlnf wood, N. C.
The Fact
No amount of misrepresentation by the
peddlers of alum baking powders, no jug
gling with chemicals, or pretended analysis,
or cooked-up certificates, or falsehoods of
any kind, can change the fact that
Royal Baking Powder
has been found by the of II
clal examinations to be of the
highest leavening efficiency,
free from alum, and of absolute
purity and wholesomeness.
Royal Baking Powder is indispensable
for making finest and most economical food.
THE BROKEN LINK.
I now give up thy friendship 'tis a hard and bitter thing,
But mine's a nature far too proud to bear neglect's cold sting.
'Tis a bitter lesson added to those already learned
"The holiest feelings of ihe hc-.iri are ofienesi rudely spurned."
And yet I do not blame thee the fault is really mine:
1 saw thee clad in vestments perhaps not truly thine;
I deemed thy heart was noble, and tender as mine own,
Alas ! 'twas but a mirage my soul had 'round thee thrown.
Had this link by death been broken, oh, I would have bowed my head,
And wept such tears as consecrate the memory of the dead !
I would have looked beyond the grave and, smiling, kissed the rod
Which smote one of the noblest souls that ever came from God.
Had misfortune fallen on thee, and the cold world passed thee by,
I would have proudly stood the lest and met each scornful eye;
Had any dared to whisper one word against thy name,
I would have cast the slander back to those from whom it came.
But no ! and yet, believe me, as 1 breathe this last farewell,
No thought of bitterness or scorn doth in my bosom dwell,
Too proud to be neglected, I can yet be true to thee,
And break the link misfortune forged to fetter thee to me !
The world 1 trust will bring again, as in its path you stray,
A love as gentle as the one so lightly cast away.
Good-bye ! In sadness, not in wrath, I break the linked chain,
Leaving only what is writ on thy false heart my name !
THEN AND NOW.
The Old Drinking Cup
Black
The Virginia Board of Health , scant two hundred Raleigh pro
issues a bulletin and illustrates the gressives who couldn't draw a
uuiio.s ui uic u ihimi uuimo.B
cup and urges individual paper j
cups, ii tries iu suuw iiiui iiiimiums
of germs great, gorgeous, crawl
ing, man-eating germs roost in the
drinking cup, and people should
not use such a vessel.
The old gourd that laid around
the spring for all the summer is
tabooed; the tin cup that was
chained to the town pump when
we were a boy is condemned
everything that is possible for a
germ roost is said to be capable of
spreading disease.
Really the wonder is that we all
didn't die ten thousand years be
fore we were born. Think of the
million germs that roost in a man's
chin whiskers. Think of the germ
roosts every where and anywhere.
Why, bless your soul, this germ
theory is getting to be almost uni
versaland germs are seen
through powerful glasses every
where you look. If you take a
drop of water and look at it
through a powerful glass, no mat
ter how clear the water or how
pure, it is nothing in the world but
a clot of live things germs and
bugs and wild cats and wolves and
hyenas and buffalo and panthers
and railroad magnates and life in
surance agents and suffragettes.
That is what they are in minature
After ages they get on their feet
and appear in slit skirts or spike
tailed coats and then proceed to at
tempt to eradicate the First Cause.
We are a stickler tor health meas
ures. We think that ordinary
cleanliness is a good thing but
this telling us that the old family
gourd that hung by the moss cov
ered bucket, the iron bound bucket,
the old oaken bucket that fell in
the well is a death-dealing, germ
roosting zoological garden makes
us weary, just a. little bit. We are
willing to take our flour adultera
ted; our coffee made of something
else; our honey artificial and the
butter oleomargarine. We are
willing to accept the creed of the
CASTORIA
For Infanta and Children.
flu Kind You Have Always Bought
Bean the
Blgnatnr of
Remains
Has Received a Very
Eye.
v.uu wiin reu-uiK advertisements
as me rele thynge-the pure stuph !
but when it comes to telling us j
that the old tin dipper out of which !
we drank water seven thousand, j
"u,m,cu a,,u nn tunes was : man and he reaches him. He has
a nest of germs that spelled death fdt the salvation which he preaeh
and desirucnon-we pause, and in es, and he is thus able to bring a
pausing we want to know more knowledge of it to those who need
about a. If ,he germs are that j jt. He is a power for good where
um. we must perforce breath
them in the air we live upon; we
must sleep with them, we must eat
them and everything we tcuch,
according to the theory is germ
laden.
What we should do is to have a
constitutional amendment against
germs. They should have the
curfew ordinance applied. They
should be used for fish bait thev
should be seggregated.
We often think that it isn't quite
the caper to drink water out of a
dirty glass, where a half hundred
foul - breathed buzzards have
slacked their thirst-but so far as
the old family dinner the
handled gourd which hung in the
kitchen a thousand years before
he fading of the clorv of Alevm
dna-well, we expect to make
preachments against discrediting
the gourd.
Germs, why bless your soul,
man, we have seen men with that
Sublime Thirst strain corn likker
through their handkerchiefs to get
the gnats out of it, drink the likker
and live 200 years. The dirtiest
tramp on the road is the one who
is never sick. The infant that
makes mud pies and wades in the
mud puddle is the one with the
brightest cheeks, and the hot house
plant that swats germs and fears a
personal attack every time he sees
a gourd where oilier people have
quenched their thirst generally
keeps the undertaker hopeful.
However we do not want to dis
credit Wall-eyed Science because
Wall-Eyed Science is quite a fad-dtst.-tverything.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
Why waste time criticizing your
faults? Your friends will do it for
you free of cost.
A GOOD PREACHER.
Billy Bryan's Idea ol Billy Sun
day. To call the Reverend William A. ,
Sunday "Billy" is not a discour-;
tesy bin an evidence of alfeciion.
' It was the name by which he was
known when he was a ball player,
j and he has not found it neeevMiry
j to maintain his dignity by frowning
' upon a familiarity which his genial i
! nature invites. Like Sam Jones,
' he is the recipient of praise and
abuse of praise from those whose
hearts have felt the influence of
his powerful appeals, of criticism
from ihose who have not come
into contaci with him or are igno-1
rant of the effective service he has
rendered to the cause of righteous- j
ness. It is said that he is drama- i
lie well, life has its dramatic mo
ments, and nature does not always
speak in whispers. The thunder,
the lightning, the earthquake and
the hurricane, as well as the mead
ow brook, the evening zephyr and
the glowing sunset, give us ',
glimpses of nature.
Sunday should not be condemn-j
ed because he does not follow the j
beaten oratorical path. No two j
speakers are alike if they are worth
comparing; no speaker can sue- j
cessfully imitate anoiher speaker, j
and he will not want to unless he
is more interested in his manner
than in his message. Some min
isters have complained that Sunday ;
is unconventional. But what of
that if the Lord gives him souls i
j finds fault with Sunday should, !
! before complaining, be sure thai j
j he can offer in support of his kind
: of preaching a longer list of names
) of persons who have been con
! veried. If your neighbor tells you
: he has no use for Billy Sunday, take
! him to one of Sunday's meetings
( and let him sit spell bound, as
i thousands do nightly, and listen to
his presentation of the Gospel. !
, One experience will convirce him '
that a man who can be instrunien-
i tal in me regeneration or human
hearts and in strengthening his
;sj
hearers to a better life is not labor
ing in vain.
livery agency of evil, every ma- j
nipiilator of the ni.in traps, every 1
: conspirator against the purity of!
; youth or the virtue of manhood or !
womanhood all these will instinc- '
lively protest against Sunday's 1
entrance into their town. Is
that j
not enough to assure the
well-
meaning man on which side of the
scales his influence should be cast? j
Billy Sunday knows the average
ever he goes From a signed arti- j
cle by Mr. Bryan. j
A FIRST CLASS ANTHliM.
A sailor who had been to a
church service where he heard
some fine music was afterward
descanting upon an aniliem which
had given him great pleasure.
A listening shipmate finally ask
ed: "1 say, Bill, what's a hanthem?"
' "What?" exclaimed Bill. "Do
you mean to say you don't know
what a hanthem is?"
"Not me."
"Well, then, I'll tell yer. If 1
! was 10 ask yer' "re H'"' fiive
I me 'anJ-sPikei' ll,al wouldn't
i be a hanthem. But if was to s.iy,
Bill, Kill, Bill, give, give, give I
me, give me that spike, Bill, give j
me that that that 'and 'andspike, !
'and 'andspike, spike, spike, Alt
men, Ahmen, Ahmen, Bill, give
me 'andspike, spike, Ahmen,
that would be a hanthem."
why
Coughed lor Three Year
' I am a imri of out uoiUemi to hu
manity ailil science. Vulll Illetlu'llH',
llr. Kini'n New iicnvi'iy. cuiimI my
Couirli of tin ee year's Htatnlimr." avn
Jennie ricmmniK-, of New finer, Ohio.
Have you annnymi? couirh? In it Mltih
horn ami wont yiel-1 to treatment'.' Oct
a one. liottle ol tr. Kind's New Pmcov
ery tolay. What it ili-1 for Jennie 1'lem
niimt it will do for you, no matter how
stuhliorn or chronic a couirh muy he.
It stops a couirh ami topn tlnoat ami
limit trouble. Relief or money hack.
5tlc. aiil $1. at your ilrugirist. ltuck
len's Arnica Salve for your pimples.
And it is easier to
some people than
through a glass eye.
see through
it is to see
The curiosity of some enables
others to live without working.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
Reliable evidence is abundant that women
are constantly being restored to health by
Lydia f-. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
The many testimonial letters that we are continually pub
lishing in the newspapers hundreds of them are all genu
ine, true and unsolicited expressions of heartfelt gratitude
for the freedom from suffering that has come to these
women solely through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Money could iwnt buy nor any kind of influence obtain
such recommendations; you may depend upon it that any
testimonial we publish is honest and true if you have any
doubt of tli is write to the women whose true names and
addresses are always given, and learn for yourself.
Read this one from Mrs. Waters:
Camden-, X..I.- ''I was sick for two years with nervous spells, and
my kidneys were iitl'eeteil. I had a doctor all the time and used a
giikanie fiattery, lint imtliiiif,' did me any good. I was not able to go
to lied, Imt sm iiI in V time on a couch or in a sleeping-chair, and soon
became almost a skeleton. Finally my doctor went away for his
health, and my husband heard of l.ydja K. l'inkham's Vcgetablo
Compound uml gut ine some In two months 1 tfot relief and now I
am like a new woman and am at my us.ial weight. 1 recommend
your medicine tocscry one and so does my husband." Mrs. Tii-lis
W'atkiis, li;i5 Knight St., Camden, N.J.
And this one from Mrs. Haddock:
Vtica, Oki.a. " I was weak and nervous, not aliletodn my work
and scarcely able to be on inv feet. I had backache, headache, palpi
tation of the heart, trouble with my bowels, and inflammation, Since
taking the. J.ydia K. I'inklnim's Vegetable Coiiiioimd I am better
than I have lieen for twenty years. I think it is a wonderful medi
cine and 1 have recommended it to others." Mrs. Maky Ann IIad
pock, I tica, Oklahoma.
Now answer this question if you can. Why should a
woman continue to suffer without first giving Lydia E.
l'inkham's Vegetable Compound a trial? You know that
it lias saved many others why should it fail in your case?
For 30 years l.ydin V.. I'lnldinm's Vegetable
Compound Ims been ttie standard reniedytorfe
male ills. No one sick with woman's ailments
does Justice to herself if she does not try this fa
mous medicine mndu from roots and lierlis, it
has restored so many sutler ini; women to health,
I yWritefol.VIHA K.l'l NK II AM MKIMCIMTO.
&S MONHItKNUAl,) I.YW. ASS., for advice.
Your letter will lie opened, read and answervd
by a woman and held in strict euatldenuu.
Pipit
II Jnl
Hollow
Her Haed
VHE slory of a woman
J who protects the girl
mS slayer of her husband
..Jr t. .. rpvn,T,llnnn
... . . b-
his lamily ror the persecution
she endured at their hands
during her young wifehood.
Our next serial you'll enjoy ill
c- .... .. .,
George Barr McCutcheon
at His Best
in our new serial '
The Hollow
of Her Hand
Don't Miss It I
An unusual, compelling,
absorbing mystery
The Hollow
of Her Hand
Watch for the first
installment in this paper !
GRt AT BARGAINS
IN TYPHWITCKRS.
i Yec;m a Uiyr Murk of Mun.luul
j Tvpt'W titers, ran lumii i once Mou
' arch. fox. Oliver. Kemiuirton. Koyal,
; Minlli I'leinier. I. V. Minth A l'.io.V
I and I'ndeiwoud. Any other make trnm
I t't l.'idav;' notice. have hoth the
viable and the invisible. Wo hontfht a
I Iuil'o stock ol' these Typewriter horn
one-fourth to one-lmlf the reirular wliole-
1 suit price, and on sale now at one-fouith
to one-nan tne reiruiar man prices, a
Hood Typewriter from 5-7. o to jl.Y A
better oue 17 .hi to ''N.MI. Ihe best
from $.!" up to any price. Will he clad
to answer any imjuirv in connection
with these machines, and send samples
of the work done by any of the Type
writers we have. Kverv hov aud Kir
should have one of our cheap Typewri
ters to leatn how to use. Any person
who can write well on a typewriter cau
demand a larpe salary. Anyone who
buvs a cheap tvpcwuter Ironi us ami
wants ft better one later, we will take
back the one houcht and allow thesame
mid for it in exchange for a better one,
if returned in (rood condition and within
six months, li not in pooti condition we
allow the market value. We carry Type
writer ribbons aud other supplies.
SPIERS BROS.
WET.OON, ft. C
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PROH-SSIONAL CARDS.
VVALTI-k I;. DANIEL,
Attorney-at-Law,
W KI.ltoN, s. r.
Piiii-tici s i;i lite courts of Halifax and
Noitli:t;tiiin unl iii l In Supreme and
l-nlrrul rnuit. .illcetuniK made in all
pails of Nm ih ( untliua. Ilrauch office
ut Halifax upcu every Monday
Win. L. KNIGHT,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
WKl.lKiX, N. ('.
Kusiiu-ss pnmiitlv aud laithfully at
tended in.
Associated with 1'eehleHA HarriM and
oay Midyt'tte in llalilax Sunerior
Court practice. 2-29-tf
OtiORGH C. URKEN,
ATTORNEY-" AT-LAW,'
(National Hank liuil.linif) .
Weldon. N. C
KI.I.IOTT B. CLARK,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
I1AI.II AX, X. C.
Pld
kactu'k in tue courts ol llalilax aud
Ijnininif counties and iu the Su
piviiu- cuurl ol the Mate. rpecial allt'U
turn ifiven to collections and proirpt re
turns. NMMy
W,
J. WARD,
DKNTIST,
01 1 ii k in 1'amki. nnuuxor
WELDON, S.CJ
sepl2 ly
A I. SCHISLER,
CIVIL ENGINEER,.
Surveying a Specialty
l'honc 2nl
V r.MlKiKlA, VA.
I). E. STA1NBACK,
NOTARY PUBLIC
And Fire Insurance.
talk; Nuts llllkc - Wtllm N.f.
&
T. CLARK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WELDOS.N.O.
Practices in the courts of Halifax aud
ailjoiuinir counties anil it the iSuprcme
court of the State. Special attention
ifiven to collections and prompt returns
T. V. .Mason, J A. Wokrkil
liarysbursr. N. C. Jackson N.C
W. I.. Lonu, Weldon, K. ('.
MASON, WORRELL & LONG,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Offices: Weldon, N. C.and Jkon,N.C
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